WORKS:
Vocal & Choral Music

All scores and parts are available for sales or rental through the Canadian Music Centre.
Most of the following works can be heard on Spotify.

Vocal

SONGS TO WHITMAN: At the Beach At Night & O Sun of Real Peace  two songs set to poems by Walt Whitman (2016)

• tenor or soprano and string quartet  c. 16:00
• Commissioned privately by James McTavish.  Premiered by Lawrence Wiliford, tenor, and the Cecilia Quartet on March 2017 at the Isabel Theatre in Kingston.

ENCHANTMENTS OF GWENDOLYN:  Four songs set to poems by Gwendolyn MacEwen (2015).

• Mezzo-soprano and piano.   c. 17:00
• Commissioned by the Canadian Art Song Project.  Premiered by mezzo Allyson McHardy and Adam Sherkin piano at the Canadian Opera Company Bradshaw Amphitheatre in Toronto on January 27, 2015.
• Listen (YouTube)

UNDER THE WATCHFUL SKY (2009-10)  Three songs set to ancient Chinese poems.  c.21:00

• Mezzo-soprano & orchestra: 2fl 2ob 2cl 2bn 4hn 2tpt 2tbn btbn tba 2perc timp hp & strings.
• Commissioned by mezzo-soprano, Susan Platts, through the Rolex Mentor & Protégé Arts Initiative. Premiered by Susan Platts and the Quebec Symphony Orchestra on Nov. 10 &11, 2010 in Quebec City.

LOVE YOU FOREVER (2005) based on the children’s story by Robert Munsch.   16:00

• Narrator/singer, violin, oboe, cello & accordion.
• Commissioned by Stratford Summer Music and MacDonald’s Restaurants (Stratford)  Premiered by story teller, Robert Munsch, and  Quartetto Gelato in August 2005.

DEATH & THE MORNING STAR: Easter theme of Death & Resurrection (1987) c. 30:00

• Baritone solo, choir & orchestra:  2fl 2ob 2cl 2bn 2hn 2tpt 2tbn btbn tba 2perc timp hp & strings.
• Ontario Arts Council commission. Written for & premiered by the Bach-Elgar Choir with John Fanning, soloist & the Hamilton Philharmonic Orchestra at Hamilton Place, April 18, 1987.   CBC broadcast June 28, 1987.

Choral

SVET (SANCTUS) (2014) c.  4:00

• Male octet
• Commissioned by the Slovenian Radio for the Vrtinec (Rose) Oktet.  Premiered June 30, 2016 in Ljubljana for the 25th anniversary of the Slovenian Republic.

SWEET WATER SEA (2013)   c. 5:00

• SATB choir.
• Commissioned by Waterside Concerts.  Premiered by the Elora Festival singers at the Waterside Summer Series on Amherst Is. ON, August 7, 2013.

FLYING SWANS (2010)  c. 8:30

• SATB choir, cl. (or vla or veena) & cello.
• Commissioned  by the Data  Family for the 10th anniversary of the Cantabile Singers.  Premiered on Nov. 6, 2010 in Kingston, Ontario.

ODE TO TALLIS  (2005)   c. 13:00

• SATB choir.
• Société Radio-Canada Commission for the 500th birthday anniversary of Thomas Tallis.  Written for and premiered by Le Studio de Musique Ancienne de Montreal & the Elmer Iseler Singers in Nov. 2005 in Toronto & Montreal.

SANCTUS (2005)   c. 4:00

• SATB.  Movement from ODE TO TALLIS.  See above.

YOUTH’S  CONCERNS (2000)  Three songs for advanced youth choirs.    c.12:00

• SATB choir.
• Laidlaw Foundation commission.  Written for Choirs Ontario and performed by the Ontario Youth Choir for their Ontario tour September 17-23, 2000.

DEATH & THE MORNING STAR: Easter theme of Death & resurrection (1987) c. 30:00

• Baritone solo, choir & orchestra:  See Vocal above for details.